By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ahhhh, tis officially Moka Pot latte morning season...

Sacramento YIMBYs: We will be gathering at Der Biergarten on K Street at 5:30pm. All are welcome to come and celebrate the passage of SB 79 and all of the other housing bills signed today!

One of the weirder visualizations I've come up with for the stupidity of the Trump Regime: You and your partner are told to visually document a crime scene. You show up with a polaroid camera but your partner is carrying a bulky bag. When you pull out your camera he slaps it out of your hand (1/3)

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Wooooooooo, let's gooooooooooooooo

Just heard from the building super that they know what's wrong with the elevator. Hopefully by next week then I'll have access to my bicycle again! 😅

My grandfather received two Purple Hearts for injuries received while fighting for "antifa" in the early 1940s. What the fuck are these lunatics snorting (or, more importantly, what do they think WE'RE snorting that we'd let this go?

This is my biggest objection to dockless bike/scootshare. The lack of dedicated "place where thing go" racks specifically for these devices not only means they end up dumped in dangerous, disrespectful, or inconvenient places but also that racks provided for general use get completely taken up too.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Every time I see some fresh horror visited upon us by this right-wing terrorist government, the silence from those members of my family who voted for it is all the more deafening and enraging. These were people who, in spite of their flaws, I always thought good but now I just see them as cowards.

@donoteat.bsky.social @wtyppod.bsky.social Just clocked a lightly photoshopped rendition of the Colorado Railcar DMU demonstrator on the cover of SMART's 2006 EIR

With ATC shortages mounting, I'm just waiting for one of the many AI companies the Trump Regime is in bed with to crop up with "Why don't we replace ATC's with our untested but totally awesome AI?" I'm sure that'd go over well.

It doesn't take much work at all to find ways the freight railroads measurably hamper or harm your community's ability to improve itself.

A seasonal reminder that yes, you CAN cycle in conditions other than a balmy sunny day in spring. While there are parts, products, and accessories designed to make this easier the MOST IMPORTANT part, especially in snowy places, is that infrastructure is well-built, maintained, and cleared regularly

"Newsom has pledged bold leadership on housing. Now is the moment to show it. SB 79 is not about punishing cities; it’s about ensuring that homes get built where they make the most sense — in urban, transit-rich areas where people can thrive without long commutes or car dependence."

I cannot stress enough how huge a slam dunk rail electrification is. It's not even just about things like net zero or climate targets. Rail electrification, both passenger and freight, reduces airborne pollutants, reduces noise, allows more/faster passenger services, and yeah it runs on electrons ⚡

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

#clanker is not a slur you galaxy-brained dipshits

Always interesting exactly who is called upon to denounce what.

As far as I'm concerned, the behavior and stated goals of ICE under the Trump Regime should be cause for their property and assets to be forfeit and seized by states in defense of states' citizens. ICE is a criminal, rogue organization answerable to no one but Trump's Fascist League of Morons.

@governor.ca.gov (1/2) Hey, professional transportation planner here. Dumping more taxpayer $ into SR37 amounts to gross incompetence. -The road will be underwater before the improvements are even 1/3 through average lifespan. -Adding capacity (no matter how) won't fix congestion. This is a fact.

I wish the people who -were- in my life before this year understood how violently betrayed I feel by their decisions to vote for this fascist dystopia and then DOWNPLAY the significance of that decision. If they'd seen this horror and made an about-face, I'd still be in their lives but they didn't.

If you've ever wondered why nothing ever seems to get solved at the societal level despite clear evidence that we do actually have a solution, this is a rough approximation of what actually happens.

Afford a weekend "toy" car today! Big car companies hate this one weird trick! Get your sportscar fix without a midlife crisis! How? Live someplace you don't NEED a car.

Investing in the facilities and policies necessary to enable and encourage cycling by more than just lycra-clad creatures truly does help unlock the social realm for folks who America (and other car-dependent cultures) are happy and even eager to just lock away and forget about.

That moment of "oof" when you realize your sewing skills aren't ACTUALLY that terrible considering you remembered to make the button shank when sewing it back on but the garment maker didn't when they made the damn thing in the first place.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

The elevator in my 114-year-old apartment building has been down since last week bc a new tenant was abusing it too much and as a result I haven't had access to my bike, which lives in the basement, for as long. I'm not going crazy YOU'RE going crazy!

I'm FAIRLY certain I successfully used a sports reference the other day.

I'm damned well not gonna give up hope that we're able reverse course on our own but the rest of world needs to understand it will be a LOT easier to stand up to Trump now while his control of the country is still incomplete than it will be to go up to him later once he's installed himself as "king"

Your friendly reminder that when bike/pedestrian infrastructure is built regularly just as a matter of course and best practices it ends up being overwhelmingly cheaper and having a higher ROI than trying to serve the same trips using new-build car infrastructure.

If Antifa were a real group, you’d be able to buy merch.

#DonaldTrump should be removed from office immediately. Not to suggest that he shouldn't have been before now, but rather it is abundantly clear he is completely and totally out of his mind at this point in a way that is so blatant it would win an award if played as parody.

Anything to avoid that thing involving jeff.

It is now official, anyone who says "LGB without the T" is a confirmed fed and should be treated accordingly.

MF's seriously losing their mind because moving stairs became regular stairs.

Just as a reminder or in case anyone was wondering, I only maintain an active social media presence here on Bluesky. I have parked accounts on Twitter and there might still be an ancient Facebook account floating around but no one should be posting in my name anywhere but here on Bluesky.

I am begging the rest of the world's leaders to please openly and roundly mock our president as he so clearly deserves. Bullies only understand bullying so stop beating around the bush and break out the primary school mentalities. Trash his decrepit ass.

This defies description it is so profane and appalling. Those words do not adequately describe what we are witnessing here, perpetrated under orders by the federal government's goon squad.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA #truth

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

How the FUCK do we survive another three years of this?

In case you didn't hear, Bluesky updated it's TOS recently in a way that very clearly represents a creeping sanitization of the platform. If you're a recent arrival you may not know but the bulk of early joiners were queer artists and furries fleeing Twitter and other sanitized/fallen platforms.

Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.

a year ago i was on the verge of quitting my job in redwood city because of slow and infrequent trains, but I held out for @caltrain.com electrification. a year on from that and my commute is so easy i barely think about it

#Antifa runs in our blood.